On Saturday, March 8, 2026, two ISIS-inspired teenagers hurled dud improvised explosive devices into a “Stop the Islamic Takeover” protest outside New York City’s Gracie Mansion, aiming to surpass the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in casualties. The failed attack caused no injuries thanks to the devices malfunctioning, but the intent was clear.
We have touched on the Iran war and how much of it has unfolded. The sanctions that exist have also been examined. Clearly there is a seismic shift coming in the world of oil sanctions. Venezuela is no longer a pariah state. Their oil is now selling on the world market and being paid for in petrodollars.
Iran’s oil will follow if the regime is ousted. This would mean a more open market for oil which would stabilize prices and bring greater stability to the world’s economics.
Scott Bessent has temporarily lifted the sanctions on the sale of Russian oil to India. Recently Vladimir Putin said Russia remains prepared to resume large-scale oil and gas cooperation with European buyers under long-term agreements.
A voice from inside Iran.
One of the things that Iran does is to spread propaganda about how peaceful they are and that they just want to same things for their people that other countries have. They want the world to believe that they just want to co-exist. The following is a thought exercise about this.
Yesterday we touched on the Iran war and how much of it has unfolded. Clearly an operational cover that was used was the TACO idea, that is, that Trump would chicken out and not follow through on the threats that were made. Iran thought that they could string the administration along and eventually Trump would be gone and Iran would have a nuclear weapon. That idea lies shattered within the ruins of the Ayatollah’s palace.
The acronym surfaced during the tariff wars last year. According to the pundits who should know better Trump Always Chickens Out. This was their assessment of Trump threatening to impose harsh tariffs and then relenting when bilateral trade policies are worked out. PDJT got scores of nations to agree to a tariff regimen that would probably have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
In the lead-up to the war with Iran, the same acronym was trotted out in reference to what might happen over there. PDJT kept saying that Iran would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Their enrichment facility that was buried under a mountain was literally buried by massive ordinance dropped by B-2 bombers last year. The IRGC did not take the hint and have since been trying to recover the enriched uranium as many satellite images show. Why?
When protesters were being killed in Tehran early in the year, President Trump threatened strikes, telling Fox News he had “put Iran on notice.” Trump said he had been informed the killing had stopped and that executions of arrested protesters would not take place, citing “very important sources on the other side.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison have been testifying in Congress recently about the massive fraud that has been uncovered in their state. Some 98 people have been indicted for the Feed Our Future fraud. As it turns out 85 of those have been Somalis.
Congressman Jim Jordan led questioning that exposed the Governor as lying about why certain actions were taken over the years while this fraud was going on. If this was a high school basketball game, it would have resulted in invoking the mercy rule.
Heroic Iranians have been risking and losing their lives trying to overthrow a regime that has oppressed and murdered its own people since 1979. These Iranians represent one of the clearest pro-democracy movements in the world today.
Yet the response from much of the American left has been strikingly quiet. There were no protests from leftists about the inhumanity of the Iranian government. There were no protests until America under PDJT’s leadership took direct action against the regime’s military apparatus. Then it wasn’t in support of the Iranian people or their fight for freedom. It was in opposition to the strike itself.
There are those who say that America and Israel are running out of munitions. These people say that the whole point was to topple the regime in a few days. Otherwise, Iran would emerge victorious when the cupboard was bare. That claim of just a few days was refuted by the administration over and over. The administration expects the war to continue for a month or more before Iran’s military capabilities are wiped out.
The brilliant post below by Iranian-American Anahita Renner should come with a DISTURBING CONTENT warning. It should be required reading for all those who are railing against the coming end of this brutal and incredibly evil regime.
For those who reflexively claim “I am against war,” two things – 1. We all are (except certain neocons and politicians who make oodles of money off of war), and 2. Get past your superficial stand and take a deep dive into some very ugly reality and facts.